re: Do you ever feel like you’ve wasted your life?

Ah, screw that, man! Nothing that happened in the past should bother you unless you seriously harmed someone else. If you wasted time, so what, just stop wasting it.

I know a guy who worked as a regular schmuck for a major corporation for most of his career. He retired at about 55, then he spent the next five years developing a tech company. There are currently a couple of SPACs offering a 25% buy at $1.5 billion. I think he owns about half of the company. If he does the deal he’ll be “worth” $750 million (He’ll still be along for the ride. It could go bust or it could increase 10 fold.)

He could be worth 5 to 10 billion dollars in another couple of years, and he really just started at 55. Did he waste the first 35 years of his career? I don’t think so.